Feel The Fire Studio

Good morning from my temp office in the living room while my home office is still under construction! It’s been a while as my office job kept me busier than I wanted, after 11+ years of being a casual, organizational changes sort of forced me to go full time. Well … » full post and pics!

Winter has been dry and cold, we’ve seen -36 without the wind chill!! Our New Year’s Eve party was a success again and so much fun! Then I was busy with making Valentine’s Crittens and then there were the Winter Olympics and oh yeah, it was our TEN YEARS IN … » full post and pics!

In recent years I’ve been working hard behind the scenes. Besides working with clients, I spent many months moving my sites to a new web host, Antagonist in the Netherlands, and doing any updates where needed (made this whole blog bilingual, … » full post and pics!

Great news! Nothing signed yet, but heard last Friday that due to changes in the team, I can keep my work-from-home office job after all!!! I will continue to work on expanding my business, this past month has learned me a lot about where my heart is. But very happy … » full post and pics!

Last weekend I was home alone and worked very hard for 2 long days to make a new office for me. Uncluttered the existing one, moved lots to the basement and created a nice, spacious new Feel The Fire office … » full post and pics!

We wish everybody a happy, healthy and safe 2008!!! Here’s a bit of video from last night’s fireworks in our neighbourhood… I’m gonna miss that in Regina! I also uploaded an album with pictures in the gallery.

Just thought I’d say hi.. but I don’t really have a lot to tell 😉
I’ve been extremely busy with the webzine, still catching up where I left things before the vacation and flu, but I’m getting there. I’ve had my hands full with the organisation, editing and esp. writing … » full post and pics!

We’re having a couple of hot days right now, so we’re enjoying summer 🙂 Next weekend is the Bang Your Head festival in the south of Germany (Balingen), so hopefully it’ll be still good then (it’s usual real hot in that weekend!). For the first time we’ll be sleeping in … » full post and pics!

How to navigate our posts:
1. MOTORHOMING! are all our camping trips with our motorhome since 2009, and related info.
2. SASKATCHEWAN is for all non-camping trips, activities and info within our province.
3. OTHER DESTINATIONS are all non-camping trips and info elsewhere.
4. OUR HOME LIFE has everything else about our (personal) prairie life in Regina! Also about our life in the Netherlands until 2008 and our emigration to Canada.

About Wobben.org

Hello! We are Nico and Marlies Wobben!

On The Prairie And Beyond is mostly about our life in Regina, Saskatchewan on the Canadian Prairie, where we live with our six wonderful kitties and go camping a lot with our motorhome. We also love traveling back to the old country (Netherlands) and other places!

Nico is an RN and I (Marlies) have a web design business Feel The Fire and write on this blog. Until recently I combined this with a parttime office job.

We've known each other since the 80s from heavy metal concerts, mostly in Eindhoven, where I am from. We didn't get together until 1993, married in 1996, lived in Heerlen until we moved to Canada in 2008.

We are home! We love the people, the space, nature, the wildlife... our prairie life!